Even the American Psychiatric Association indicates that the average American child watches 28 hours of television each week and will have seen 16,000 simulated murders and 200,000 acts of violence by the age of 18. ... In the journal Violence in the Lives of Children, it states that the types of violence experienced by males and females are often very different, as are their relative levels of risk, though neither gender is immune from any particular form of violence (Brown, & Bzostek, 2003; p. 8). ...

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